I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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Mathematics is a logical method.... Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
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The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
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